Peanut Butter Banana Cups

What time is it when you normally feel the rumbling of a craving? Does it strike after dinner, when you’re sitting on the couch, and you’e just realized that there’s nothing sweet in the house? Many after hours ice cream runs have started this way! Does your craving hit you mid-afternoon, in your office, and leave you in search of the nearest vending machine or bakery? If you’re committed to healthy, clean eating, you know that giving in to cravings for refined, processed, sugary sweets can be damaging to your eating plan, and your health! But you don’t need to swear off sweets completely!

Enter our scrumptious Peanut Butter Banana Cups, rich, chocolatey, peanut buttery cups that melt in your mouth, but are made with 100% clean eating ingredients. Each bite contains nothing but dark chocolate, which is lower in sugar than milk chocolate and rich in flavonoids, peanut butter for protein, banana for a heaping dose of antioxidants, and coconut oil, one of our favorite, healthy substitutes for butter.

Simply spoon your melted chocolate to the bottom of your baking cups, top with a slice of banana and a scoop of peanut butter mixed with coconut oil. Then, top each nugget with a dollop of chocolate. Freeze for twenty minutes, and enjoy. Having these delicious cups in your kitchen will give you that candy feel and flavor, without the added fat and calories. Homemade, clean eating candy for the win!

Place a sheet of wax or parchment paper on the counter top for preparation. Set the baking cups on top.

Melt chocolate in a double-boiler or in a small sauce pan over low heat. Allow to cool slightly. In the meantime, combine the melted coconut oil and peanut butter.

Add approximately 1 teaspoon melted chocolate to the bottom of each baking cup, followed by one banana slice, 1 teaspoon peanut butter mixture, and lastly drop about 1/2 teaspoon melted chocolate in the center of each cup. Carefully place cups on a freezer safe dish or casserole pan. Cover and place in the freezer until set, approximately 1 hour.

NOTE: Our perfectly portioned Peanut Butter Banana Cups thaw quickly. For best results, enjoy one at a time after allowing to set at room temperature about 2-3 minutes. To prevent the peanut butter mixture from softening too quickly, add 1 tablespoon powdered sugar to peanut butter and coconut oil mixture before adding to cups.

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41 Comments on "Peanut Butter Banana Cups"

I made these today and it just didn't work in normal size baking cups (muffin size). I see your comment now about the tiny baking cups, but that's not in the recipe anywhere. That explains why mine was such a mess. Can you add that to the text for others?

🙂 Apparently so! I guess I glossed over that when I was making them because I have never bought or used any size cup besides the standard muffin one. I probably ignored it because I assumed a muffin cup was a muffin cup. Oh well. Live and learn.

SkinnyMs August 26, 2015

Mel, You can find the smaller cups at any grocery store, even Walmart. Look in the baking section at the grocery and in the cake decoration section at Walmart.

Meg December 1, 2015

Do you need to use the coconut oil? Or can someone else be used or not at all ?

These look like a delicious fix for my sweet tooth! And I have a slightly over ripe banana on the counter that can’t wait to be smothered in peanut butter and dark chocolate! 🙂 I’m just wondering, it says to put them in the freezer until set, but after that do you store them in the freezer or the fridge? Thanks for the recipe!

I made these last night and they turned out delicious. My only complaint is that 3/4 C chocolate chips didn’t leave me with enough chocolate for the topping. Ran out just using it for the bottom layer.

I didn’t put the banana in the middle and instead on top (didn’t read the directions all the way through😂They smelled and looked good) I used pb2 (mixed a bit of water in it with the coconut oil for perfect texture) and I loved the texture and consistency! It was a delicious snack and I was even nice enough and let my husband try one too!

Marilee, Actually the papercups are smaller than regular muffin size. These papercups can be found at most grocery stores or Walmart in the cake decorating section. They’re just a tiny bit larger than the banana slice.

Bev, We always use “Enjoy Life” brand. This brand is usually located in the organic section of most grocery stores. We typically use their dark chocolate because of the health benefits, but for this recipe we sometimes use semi-sweet. The dark chocolate chips are 10 calories less per serving.

Gale co-founded SkinnyMs. with a goal to provide women with delicious & clean recipes, fitness routines, and healthy ways to reach their ideal weight. Guided by her firm belief in clean eating and the power of exercise, Gale has written two cookbooks and several fitness ebooks. She earned her Fitness Training Certification from, National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association. Gale loves to run and has completed numerous half-marathons.